• Obinice@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        Millennials were ABSOLUTELY all about the lols, I can assure you. It was the most widely used acronym everywhere (second being brb, I would wager).

        We roflcopter’d and roflmao’d with the best of em! lol

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        17 days ago

        I used/use it a lot, became the standard when I was on AIM.

        Mostly I feel people use it for tone and switch between the two. Then again I also respond with k too often apparently and have had spouses bring it up to me. “I’m going to pick up hot dog buns on the way home” k is apparently not always the proper response to such things apparently.

        K, lol, cool/kool, alright, nice, oh… Apparently make up a lot of what she calls my NPC responses.

        It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that there really isn’t a reason for me to send a flushed out response while I’m in a rush and or trying to respond at a red light. I’ll see them soon, if i thought something else should be picked up at the store when they were there id either say so or call if I thought it warranted a quick discussion.

        If I ask do you want tacos, sure is a perfectly valid response, we’ve shared a bed for 5 years… if I don’t know what you do and don’t like on a taco I wasn’t paying attention, if you want something you usually wouldn’t, then it makes sense to say more

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 days ago

      Am millenial, I’ve used both lol and haha, since… I dunno, 1996?

      I distinctly remember the first time I accidentally said ‘lol’ outloud, as a single syllable, at the end of a sentence.

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      17 days ago

      I tend to reserve haha for conveying mildly interesting observations in a nonthreatening manner

      “You must be their best customer to know that, haha”

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        17 days ago

        Same.

        ‘haha’ is more polite/cordial, more passive and may indicate essentially nervous laughter

        ‘lol’ is more blunt/informal, more aggressive and may potentially indicate mockery

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      17 days ago

      I did “haha” up until somewhat recently. I started using lol sarcastically, and it quickly bled over into the haha usage. I can’t break the habit either…